Monitor The Office
Activates Sound Recognition and listens for fire alarms, sirens, smoke alarms, glass breaking, and shouting – anything you’d definitely want to know about in a work environment.
Pause Sound Recognition
Pauses the Sound Recognition feature (rather than fully disabling it).
Extra Details
Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Pause%20Sound%20Recognition
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Pause%20Sound%20Recognition
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Pause Sound Recognition”
end tell
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Stop Monitoring The Office
Pauses Sound Recognition and turns off listenign for Sirens, Fire Alarms, Smoke Alarms, and Shouting.
Monitor The House
Activates sound recognition for smoke alarms, cats or dogs, appliances, door bells, knocking, glass reaking, kettles, and water running.
Reset Sound Recognition
Turns off all the sound recognizer options, while leaving Sound Recognition active.
Stop Monitoring The House
Pauses Sound Recogntion and disables the option to listen for home lifestyle sounds.
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